MobileNews

Android 12 Beta 2: Pixel 5 finally gets ‘Columbus’ double-tap back gesture with ‘Quick Tap’

June 10, 2021
We first reported over a year ago that Google was working on a new gesture for Pixel phones that allowed a quick double-tap on the back of the phone to perform a customizable action. Now, finally in the second beta release of Android 12, Google has released the “Quick Tap” feature previously known as “Columbus,” but it’s only available on the Pixel 5. “Columbus” has been in the…
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MobileNews

Android 12 Beta 2: Picture-in-picture windows can no longer be resized by dragging the corners

June 10, 2021
While powerful, picture-in-picture is not implemented in the most user-friendly manner and Android 12 Beta 2 takes a crack at simplifying that experience by getting rid of resizing through corner dragging. Rather, the fast way to enlarge a PiP window is by double-tapping. This action in Android 11 immediately opened the video player, but it now expands the video to be the full width of your…
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GamingNews

Battlefield 2042 to debut on October 22 on consoles and PC

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Electronic Arts and its DICE studio today revealed details of Battlefield 2042, a modern online multiplayer shooter game coming October 22 for the PC, PlayStation, and Xbox (both the newer and older consoles). The game will feature as many as 128 players on the battlefield at once — the largest number ever for the series…
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AI & RoboticsNews

How AI and mosquito sex parties can save the world

June 9, 2021
Elevate your enterprise data technology and strategy at Transform 2021. Diptera.ai has raised a $3 million seed round to fight mosquitoes with mosquitoes — and AI-based sex sorting. Jerusalem-based Diptera.ai has figured out a way to use AI to fight the growing threat of mosquitoes, which are spreading malaria and viruses like Zika, dengue, and yellow fever. While the method for fighting…
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